High school football media day: Tully Black Knights (video)

After a season spent playing in Class D - a 5-3 campaign that included a playoff appearance - Tully moves back up to Class C this year.

"It's not the old Class C division," said head coach Brad Keysor of a West division that now includes Canastota and Port Byron.

Tully must replace All-CNY running back Jon Warner and the team's best lineman, Zack Fritz. But Keysor said the Black Knights return their big-play combination of quarterback Nick Edinger and receiver R.J. Herrick.

"We'll be young, but we'll have a lot of potential," said Keysor, who expects about 31 players on the field when practice begins Monday.

Herrick, one of only a half dozen seniors on the team, said the team plans to hold another benefit fund-raiser for the Wounded Warrior Project in conjunction with the Sept. 12 game against LaFayette. The team has ordered special jerseys that this year will have an American flag motif.